William Edgar Rayner Goddard, Baron Goddard, was Lord Chief Justice of England from 1946 to 1958, known for his strict sentencing and mostly conservative views despite being the first Lord Chief Justi
Rayner Goddard
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Henry Bernard Levin was an English journalist, author and broadcaster, described by The Times as "the most famous journalist of his day". The son of a poor Jewish family in London, he won a scholarshi
Rayner Goddard, Baron Goddard
…He left over £100,000 in his will, which was sworn for probate in July 1971. After Goddard's death, he was attacked in the columns of The Times by Bernard Levin, who described him as "a calamity" and accused him of "vindictiveness" and of being "a malign influence" on penal reform. Levin had also attacked Goddard…
Levin c. 1980
Christ's Hospital school in West Sussex
Lewis Carroll's The Walrus and the Carpenter (1871), borrowed by Levin as nicknames for Harold Macmillan and Harold Wilson; illustration by John Tenniel
Levin interviewing the Wagnerian bass Martti Talvela for the BBC in 1972